Are you SURE that is what Jesus would do?

I have a bone to pick with the religious haters of the world


Yes, in fact I AM talking to all of you who believe that the thing you believe as your truth is the only ballgame in town.

You have no right to sit there, smugly, staring at people who believe in a different way, but certainly who are not communing with a different God. It is all the SAME Spirit - all of it, and no matter what it is that you say to any one of those of us who refuse to be bound by the restrictions and the confines of organized religion, one thing remains the truth - You are not taking that big ol' book of yours that you like to cruise the face of the earth with, thumpin' along as though because you have your own beliefs in writing, so to speak, you somehow have become the bastion of truth and light.

Good gravy, folks...apparently you did not pay attention to what it was that you were reading, to what it was that your pentecostal preacher man was telling you when he was telling you what it was that he needed to tell you.

The Ten Commandments are also applicable to you, stupid


There are a lot of people who want to thump anyone over the head with that book they use against everyone who is not like they are, and when I say use that book, yes, I do mean as a weapon and a weapon on so many levels that I can't begin to count them all.

Recognize right now that I am not saying that every single person who believes in their religion and what said religion holds for them is somehow evil, because it isn't - I am a BIG believer in people having any kind of belief in something - ANYTHING, just as long as they believe. Belief is a touchy subject, just like politics, and to step on people over something that is as personal and paradoxically, trivial, as one's own beliefs in the context where said beliefs are "versus" another's should not now nor ever be compared to anyone else's.

I was raised on the Ten Commandments, on the Golden Rule, and the fact that above all, the greatest of ALL is Love. How, then, is it possible that since we know that these are the facets of that one book that makes that one book so Universal in its message, we can also skew that message and twist it so that it excuses us for being violent, judgmental, and punitive, all in the name of God? I mean really, think about it and ask yourself if this is the way that the God you pray to and believe in would want you to be to others.

When the good book tells us that we "shall have no other gods before me," I find it very hard to believe that there are people on the planet who still, to this day, believe that there is any other God to be before the one and only Almighty. JUST because people call the One to Whom they direct their heart's desires and their heart's brokenness something OTHER than "God Almighty," it does not - NOT mean that said person is praying to Any other God. There is only One Spirit, One Love, and once it is that we ALL can manage to get past the ego's big gimundo tug of war with the rest of the people on the planet, we will literally know what it means to be of One Heart and of One Mind. And please, where it says that God is a jealous God, don't you think that is sort of an old school way of being told, albeit through another human being's words and writings, that we need to pick a God, or a name for God, and follow that truth that we believe as our own, without imposing that truth on someone else, because that someone else probably has their own version of the same commandment that is not in all this rigid bookish language?

No? Well, that's awful for you, because that, according to my own interpretation of these Ten Rules for Living, is what these commandments are all about - the ability to live and to let others live without the prying eyes or assumptions of the rest of the world.

I mean, basically, these things are just the same damned things that your mama told you. Your mama (or your auntie or your nana...whichever person it was who raised you, duh) told you that you have to believe in something outside of your self, that you have to believe what it is that you are out 'in the wilderness' telling others about (in other words, you have to believe your own bullshit if you expect others to take you seriously about it), you have to pick a God, any God, and stick to that one God and live by the sword which you wield.
You have to not damn the name of the God to Whom you pray, because that takes away from that God's power in your life. You have to realize that the sins you commit will have the trickle down effect and will most assuredly be felt for generations afterwards (Karma IS indeed a bitch, namely when you use God as your sword to hurt others without also knowing that which you sow, so also shall you reap), and that yes, if you should so choose to go the other way and show Love in the name of your personal God, so, too, shall you reap the harvest of Divinity. God doesn't want us to become a bunch of burn outs, so he is telling us all that we need to take a day off so that we can rest because a life constantly switched to "go!" is a life that will be lived always half asleep. We are expected to respect our parents, are expected not to kill other people, not to cheat on our spouses, to be good to our friends and our siblings and complete strangers, not to steal, not to lie or to gossip, and we are expected not to hate on people and be jealous.

These things are not rocket science, and they are also not the weapons of mass intrusion that they so seem to have been for many generations.

What would Jesus do, and are you SURE that this is what he would do?


You know, we hear a whole lot about Christ Consciousness, but there are a lot of people on the planet who have NO CLUE about what that means, and I know this because I have asked people what they think it is, and the answers I get are ridiculous. I mean, ok, if you do not know better then no one can fault you for not knowing, but ignorance of things is not a permanent thing - we were created by God to be able to seek out those things and those bits and pieces of information which will enlighten us to the truth of not only our own selves, but also that of the Spirit.

You would be amazed at all the dirty looks, all the hateful and biting words - both  in writing and verbally, all the crap that I hear and have heard about the way that I define my own beliefs, and my own foolishness, at least back then, prompted me to explain myself to people who are horribly unenlightened about what it truly means to live fully and spiritually. There are a lot of folks who look down on people like me, the refugees of a staunchly, rigidly religious upbringing, because I know that I ain't the only first-born of a Preacher who still follows God but follows God on a Path that was meant for me and not for all of mankind.

I get judged, harangued, threatened and told that I am going to burn in hell, all because I refuse to give a label to my own Spiritual beliefs. I am not sure what to call them other than blessed by that same God Who I keep on being told hates me because I do not give my beliefs a name that the rest of the world can understand. Well, that's just too damned bad. Just like finding work right now is a bitch, it, too, is a bitch trying to believe in one's own way because too many people fear that which is  not able to fit into a category that makes people feel comfy-cozy and safely within the confines of what is acceptable to the rest of society.

Now, I ask you, seriously, what would Jesus do? What would Jesus say to you if He were standing right there in your face asking you why it is that you can only see what you want to see and not what it is that is truly there. It is not that anyone should believe only one way, but that people should believe in anything at all. We cannot judge other people if we are not willing to be seen the way that we see others, and if how you see people like me is through the lens of judgment, well, then I have to tell you that THAT is SO NOT what Jesus would DO- EVER! Please, kindly get over yourself before you trip on that thing that is sticking out of your ass called the telephone pole you missed whilst pointing at the splinter in mine. Yeesh!

Might I remind you...


It might be noteworthy to you haters of the religious world to not forget that there was one Guy in the Bible Who was scorned, Who was told that He would be scorned, would be thought of as a quack, would be reviled because He chose to stand up for Who He was and what it was that He was here to do. And what He was here to do was NOT conform. Jesus was talked shit about, told He was a heretic, was accused of performing magick, was hated for the way that He believed, was mocked as the Son of God. And for the life of me I cannot figure out what it is that makes these crazy and irrational people truly believe that what their God wants them to do is to go out into the wilderness of the world at large and tell people that they are going to burn in hell, that God hates them, that they are not the chosen ones, that there is no place in Heaven for people who do not name their Spiritual beliefs. I do not get how it is that people who believe that their way is the best somehow also feel that their best way needs to be defended.

If what you believe is so great, and if what you believe is totally the only and truest Truth, then why is it that when someone else comes and tells you that they do not believe your way that you may automatically go into total snit mode because someone on the planet doesn't believe the same way that you do? Why is it that if it is that the truth you call your own is the only truth that you feel a need to defend it? Are you that worried about what other people think of your beliefs? Thousands of people around the world every single day die for their beliefs, and somehow I have a feeling that people who defend their beliefs like they do here in the states are not defending the belief they say they love so much, but more so, their egos. If it needs to be defended, namely against strangers, how much do you really believe what you are saying you believe in? How can it be as great as you say it is if you have to constantly defend what it is that you keep telling the rest of the world is the greatest?

The greatest never needs an explanation,  never needs defending, because its own greatness will speak volumes more than anyone with a waning ego and a shaky belief in what they follow as their own God and their own Truth. If you are following a belief because that is what you grew up with, that's all good, but if you believe it and have always, there is no need for you to defend it, no need for you to explain things to people like me who probably know intimately the details of what it is that can be called the contents of your heart, in fact, so much so that perhaps we may know them better even than your own Clergy. How sad is that? You can preach it, but you can't quote it unless it is to do the Biblical dirty dozens with other people (You know, "yo' mama so fat that Jonah was not eaten by the whale but was hiding there because he was afraid yo'  mama would eat him"...the dirty dozens...always a fun learning experience)

Go ahead, drive the nail in my hand


You can say anything you want to, but it won't make me angry, won't make me fearful, won't do all those things that you think words and threats of a hereafter that is dark and cold even as it is hosted in the lake of fire. You can say whatever it is that you feel is needed so that you feel better, but in the end the only thing that is going to happen is that you will have hurt someone and pissed them off enough so that they would not want to bother with you or your kind again, and frankly, it is enough that there are plenty of folks who are this judgmental that they would take out their own misunderstandings about their own beliefs on complete strangers.

Let me tell you something - I have been referred to as a dirty hippie, a radical, a witch, a sorceress, an atheist, a nonbeliever, and these are the nicer words that have been used to define me - the rest are too dirty for even me to write about, at least right now, that is. I have been crucified, over and over again, by well meaning individuals who, at the onset of their rants with me about religion (by the way- you should really NOT come to a battle of wit unarmed...seriously), tell me that they "don't want to hurt" me, which tells me right away that they are going to say something hurtful. I am not hurt by the idea that you do not believe the same way that I do, but I am bothered endlessly by the way that, once you have figured out that I am not going to change my beliefs for yours, you get very disrespectful, telling me that no matter how good a person I am in this life I will NEVER meet God because I am going straight to hell.

Here's some news for ya, genius - I don't have to wait to meet God, because I meet God every single day of my life. I wake up in the morning and see that the sun is there, and even if it is raining I know that the sun is there. All day long I hear the birds, see the flowers, watch the clouds roll on by, and I know that God is there, that I have met God and that I have known God for many, many lifetimes (I said 'lifetimes'...I said it- NOW DEAL WITH IT!). I know that God is real because I hear it in the voices of my children, see it in the life that abounds in my dog, know it when I realize how much bigger I am than the tiniest bugs on the tiniest flowers, and knowing that there are things which I am dwarfed by, just as I dwarf the bugs.

Who the hell do you think you are, coming up in my face - in anyone's face - telling us that what and how we believe is wrong according to you and that smirking bad boy of the cloth up front there who can't seem to keep his eyes off of the cleavage that sits up in the front row, right next to his wife and his girlfriend? Why is it odd to you that when I stand up in front of a crowd and deliver what may be one of the finest presentations of the facets of Love, you are the only one whose face is in a scowl whilst the rest of the congregation is clapping and making it known that what I speak of I speak passionately of because what I am passionate about is what I believe as my very own personal Truth? Why is it so hard for you to simply respect that I may not call myself by any label, but that I have a deep, personal. lifetime long Knowing of God, of Divine Light and of Unconditional Love? Who do you think you are to question what it is that I know versus what it is that you think you know?

Yeesh !!

That there book you like to throw at people...


You know, the one that you like to thump around the crust of the earth with, using it as your shield from people who would tell you that what is right for you might not be right for everyone? Yeah, well, why don't you take some time and read the part where it says "judge not lest ye first be judged," and realize that "that which you sow, so shall you reap," and that "the sins of the father will be visited upon the son" (meaning that you will pay your Karmic debt somehow - no, really, you will...sins of the person who you were -the father - being paid for by the person who was birthed by that old ideal - the son....duh...).

Why don't you stop giving people like me grief, and why don't you get into that book and read it FOR REAL??

Learn something, dammit...

I LOVE YOU ALL!!